Bentley and Topcon Announce Academy for the Construction Industry
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Bentley and Topcon Announce Academy for the Construction Industry

Bentley and Topcon have announced a “constructioneering academy.” This learning initiative will help bring construction professionals up to speed on the workflows developed by the companies. Bentley describes these workflows, which connects both companies cloud services, as a “process of managing and integrating survey, engineering, and construction data to streamline work and improve project delivery”, hence the name constructioneering.

Greg Bentley explains that he sees the academy as similar to its other Bentley education initiatives, which are dedicated to teaching users how to use digital workflows in BIM, reality modelling, and construction. The difference, he points out, is that the new academies will “look like hundred-acre playgrounds for equipment and engineers to work together. The software will be working in the cloud, but the machines themselves are also part of the academy.” They will focus on every piece of the workflow, including the software and hardware, as well as the work processes.

As Topcon CEO Ray O’Connor explains, Topcon is offering its own expertise as well as many of its locations worldwide where the company teaches users how to get the most out of Topcon products in field conditions.

Long-term benefits

Having “literally rolled up our sleeves on construction sites” to test constructioneering in the field, Bentley and Topcon are confident that customers who use these workflows will improve data sharing and project delivery. However, Greg Bentley argues that this is only the most obvious effect of the academies, which will solve much larger problems for the infrastucture industry.

The first is a lack of adequate investment. “I was here in Singapore in May with the McKinsey Global Infrastructure Initiative,” he said to the gathered press, “and a lot of the conference had to do with the question, why aren’t infrastructure projects bankable? There’s more than enough investment in the world to fund infrastructure—the the impediment is the variability and risk in project outcome.”

Through the constructioneering academy, he argues, Bentley and Topcon can teach construction professionals to “make those projects bankable so that private investment comes in.” He continued to say, “that’s the single thing we can do best. Make these projects bankable and get all the engineers going digital to beat the infrastructure deficit so that the world has an improving quality of life.”

A second benefit of the academies, says Ray O’Connor, is that they will help the two companies to understand the gaps between engineering and construction. This, in turn, will help them to “create automation across every segment of the workflow for construction.”

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